China and the United States must seize the opportunity and show the world their willingness and ability to cooperate and move forward together.

Since China and the United States reached consensus in building a new model of major-country relations, the two sides have achieved a range of “early harvests” in expanding pragmatic cooperation and effective management and control of differences. Today, the international configuration and the Asia-Pacific situation are undertaking a profound and complicated change, while China and the United States themselves are respectively facing another key stage of transitional development. Given this new situation and so long as the two sides can seize the precious opportunity offered by President Xi Jinping’s upcoming state visit to the United States, demonstrating to the world that the two countries are willing and able to cooperate and make joint progress, assist rather than counteract each other, accept rather than expel each other, collaborate rather than assume self-importance, the new model of major-country relations between China and the United States can be filled with new momentum and the two countries will be made possible to become an important pillar in maintaining the stability and orderly evolution of the 21st century international order.

China and the United States, the two great economies, must strengthen their cooperation and coordination, which will provide a growing, open and preferential international economic system with a “double engines”. Since the outbreak of the international financial crisis in 2008, the world economic recovery was remarkably weak and diversified. In addition, the global economic governance system is left with short-boards, which remain to be grave in that the policy coordination among big economies is insufficient and even contradicts with each other, which will further exacerbate the systemic risk of the world economy. China and the United States, the two biggest economies that account for over one third of the size of the world economy, have already played a key role in stemming the crisis from extension, pushing for the world economic recovery and cooperating to improve the global economic governance system. Now, China and the United States have to assist each other, overcome resistance at home, accelerate the transition and upgrading of domestic economy, expand international cooperation on the issues of the overcapacity of production and so on, which can upgrade the world economic efficiency and bring about sustainable demand, promote an open, global, preferential, multilateral trade and investment system, actively alleviate the systemic risk of the international financial system and jointly push for the reform and development of the global economic governance system.
　
China and the United States are the two strategic powers, whose strengthening of inclusiveness and mutual-confidence will serve as the foundation to build an equitable, stable and effective international security system, especially the Asia-Pacific security system. Today, security threats and challenges, old and new, are intertwined and compounded, and competition, cooperation and interdependence in the international security realms coexist and grow. At the same time, military security alliances based on zero-sum game, confrontation and containment prevail. Most notably, the “small-circle” cooperation mechanisms, exclusive, and of cold-war mentality, not only aggravate the strategic skepticism among countries and security dilemma, but also compromise the otherwise great potential of countries to expand security cooperation and respond to the ever deteriorating and complicating security challenges. China and the United States must come up with innovative thinking, and break through the cooperation bottleneck in military and security areas. In other words, they should apply “comparative security” rather than “absolute security” in defining their respective security goals, apply “common security” rather than “unilateral security” in defining their respective security interests, apply “cooperation security” rather than “zero-sum confrontation” in designing the path and mechanism of maintaining regional and international security, which can offer a role model to the Asia-Pacific region and even the entire international security order in developing towards a more equitable, stable and effective direction.

China and the United States are the two big governance powers, who’s strengthening of coordination and innovation will provide the global governance system with more public goods of high quality and high efficiency. As the global governance domains expand in their breadth and depth, the international community are growingly conscious of the interest commonwealth and responsibility commonwealth on the globalization basis on one hand, and on the other, as a bunch of new public domains including maritime issues, cyber security, space, polar areas, etc., come in, global governance is becoming more complicated, concurrent and asymmetric, and the gulf is enlarged between the international community’s  demand for justice and effective governance and its insufficient supply. China and the United States are the two key variables to the development of global governance system as well. Their coordination not only can provide the global governance system with enormous physical public goods, but also can bring into full play their complementary advantages in the areas including their joint response to the serious threats and challenges confronting the sustainable human development including climate change, energy and resource security, water, land and food security, etc., via innovation of governance ideas and paths, and their joint push for setting up rules in the new global public domains and for effective governance.

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